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TAMARAC -- Thieves made off with more than $15,000 in jewelry from two homes between June 24 and 27, police said. Someone broke into a house in the 6000 block of Umbrella Lane between June 23 and 25. Watches, necklaces and earrings worth $6,250 were stolen, police said. Two bags of jewelry, which had just been removed from a bank vault, were stolen from a house in the 5600 block of South Travelers Palm Lane between June 24 and 27.

Parents have their children`s photographs; dentists have youngsters` dental records; and some police departments now have adolescents` fingerprints on file. But the city`s Police Department and a video store this weekend will join forces to provide what they think is an even more accurate means of identifying children. Police officers, a Margate camera operator and employees of the Video Connection, 901 N. Congress Ave., will videotape children ages 2 to 17 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sunday.

A gang of bank robbers tunneled 25 yards underground, crept through sewers and cut a 2-foot hole in a basement wall only to come out in the ladies washroom instead of the bank vault, police said Tuesday. That triggered an electronic alarm in a police station a half-mile away and the gang -- size unknown -- fled empty-handed, leaving behind cutting equipment, digging tools, a gas cylinder and a crowbar, police said. The bungled raid on the Allied Irish Bank occurred over the long Easter holiday weekend and ended when the alert sounded at 3 a.m. Monday, police said.

Boca Raton businessman recently submitted plans to the city of Dania for a development that could transform the city into a diamond trading center, but questions remain about whether the project will ever crystallize. Moshe Tubero, who announced his intention to build the $30 million diamond center in 1983, has presented his long-awaited plans to the city for approval, and Dania`s planning and zoning board will consider them on March 5. But Tubero does not yet have financing for the project, and it is not clear that the venture would gain crucial acceptance in the small, close-knit world of the diamond trading industry.